Sr. System Engineer/Storage Engineer
Location: US, TX, Dallas
Employment type: Contract
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Airlines/Aviation
Function: Information Technology

Company profile:
Cigniti Inc. is a 15 year old Irving, TX based professional services and staffing company which helped companies like Trimac Transportation Services, The Freeman Company, Crowley Maritime Corporation, SUBWAY , Teletech Holdings, Heartland Payment Systems, Merrill Lynch, MoneyGram, Stroz Friedberg, HighRadius Corporation, Hertz, Lego, Exeter Finance, NQ Mobile, SecondStreet Media, IQ Interactive, Intuit, Kabam, Vungle, Winshuttle, Shazam Entertainment, Opera Software ASA, GXS India Technology Center, Commerce to identify the right talent for their ongoing and upcoming projects in multiple locations across the USA. The Cigniti Advantage: With a full time staff of over 500 certified consultants across the USA, Cigniti can be your go-to partner for all your staffing needsDedicated Talent Acquisition team(s) with over a decade and a half of experience and expertise in staffing IT/QA teams15% bench to meet those dynamic business and project demandsOnsite consultants working at client locations have access to a specialized R&amp;D team and senior leadership at no extra cost to our clientsDedicated account management that will take ownership of resource onboarding processes to ensure rapid induction of consultants to your projects Can we schedule a few minutes to talk about your recruitment strategy and plans?  We would like to explore opportunities to work in partnership with your team. We look forward to hearing from you.

Job description:
Storage Engineer: 5+ years experience with Network Appliance hardware and software • Data ONTAP • OnCommand Unified Manager • Provisioning Manager • SMO, SME, SDU • SnapMirror, SnapVault • NAS Concepts: NFS, CIFS, iSCSI • Storage Virtualization • Backup server and tape technologies 5+ years experience with EMC hardware and software . EMC VNX and VMAX experience in a NAS( not SAN ) environment.  • VNX Series Hardware for UNIFIED or File  • VMAX  • Storage Provisioning (FAST, storage pools, thin provisioning, data movers) • Unisphere Administration • Replication Manager for Oracle backups • VNX / VG8 Performance Analysis and Capacity Planning • Data Domain (useful, but not required)  10+ years IT infrastructure support experience • UNIX / Linux Administration • Good working knowledge of networking concepts – TCP/IP, Routing, Subnets, Topology • DNS / LDAP / Active Directory Concepts • Scripting skills: Perl, Shell (sh, ksh, bash), CGI, HTML, XML • VMWare / Virtualization Job Functions: Customer/Business Orientation • Focus on internal and external Customer requirements. • Develop understanding of business process being supported by assigned system(s). Project Management • Participate in developing time estimates for project schedules. • Support the organization’s project management policy, practice and methodology. • Provide timely and accurate progress information to project status reports • Must have familiarity with the basic PC software utilized to perform their daily duties, i.e. Word, Excel, Visio, etc… • Must have basic experience in project management and vendor relations • Must have good written and verbal skills. Problem Solving • Analyze and resolve problems of high complexity. • Research and recommend alternative actions for problem resolution. Testing/Deliverable Quality • Participate in component and system testing as it relates to hardware and operating system components. • Test and implement hardware and operating systems components using techniques that preserve system integrity. Production Support • Will be required to carry / respond promptly to an on-call pager on a rotating basis with other System Engineers. • Responsible for immediate response to system software problems.  • Needs a basic understanding of root cause analysis procedures.  • Provide technical problem resolution for less complex problems without assistance.

Requirements:
Education: AAS, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, and / or equivalent formal training or work experience. Experience: Generally has 5-10 years (or equivalent knowledge base) work experience in Systems Engineering. Maturity • Learning: Participates, and assists. • Completes tasks independently. • Tasks are assigned and consequences of error carry a high risk to the organization. Core Knowledge • Advanced knowledge of key system engineering.  • Advanced knowledge of technical / business environment Critical Skills • Demonstrated aptitude and ability for logical and abstract thinking. • Ability, within specific technology areas and under supervision, to perform basic troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution development, and implementation. • Ability to analyze and resolve problems of high complexity.  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team-based, Customer service oriented environment. • Excellent partnering, negotiation and communication skills.

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